Mail1Click – Secure Mail. Try a secure & encrypted email app

Mail1Click – Secure Mail provides secure and encrypted inbox for your email needs. If you’re paranoid about your communiques being snooped while in transmission or your enterprise organization requires more protection than SSL standards then read more of this app review!

Pros & Cons:

Pros

Secure email communication!

Cons

Email gets truncated if you use an HTML (formatted) signature.

Many… many steps involved in checking email- but at least it’s secure.

Email alerts are slow.

Features:

Mail1Click – Secure Mail brings me back to the days of working at an enterprise corporation’s IT department where it was mandated for a short period of time our departments communicate with encrypted email messages. Though this was a pain for the first time you sent or received from the bank-vault-like email system, it ensured if a message was compromised that it would be useless to the prying eyes as it would decode as gibberish. With this app messages and attachments coming in or going out are fully encrypted by AES 256 standards.

Using the app requires you to sign up at Mail1Click.com for an account which offers 1 GB of free storage. Registration requires strong password rules; meaning you have to use more than 8 characters, at least one capital letter, one number and one symbol. Once in the app you can receive and send messages plus format with bold, italic, underline, change font size & color, and add a link or HTML. You can also attach files, add CC & BCC, add contacts, search email and manage folders (though I could not get this feature to properly work).

It’s a secure email app but flawed…

Although the app is secure it fails in many areas as a fully functional email client. For example, If you receive an email from someone with an HTML (formatted) signature, a vast amount of the message is truncated (see the screenshot below). So it seems you can only receive plain text based emails to receive the full message.

There is quite some delay when receiving encrypted email alerts. A small gripe… but I do not like how it does not format certain characters properly, like the single quote character. Overall, I think it’s a bit ironic that the app is called “Mail 1 Click” yet it takes so a few steps and clicks just to receive an email… see the processes below:

Sender emails message to encrypted inbox.

Sender receives an encrypted link to verify they are not a robot by enter an anti-spam Captha correctly.

AndroidTapp.com Rating

(3.6 out of 5)

Should you Download Mail1Click – Secure Mail? I would recommend this to the paranoid seeking more email encryption or those occasions where you need more email security. I cannot recommend this as a solution that an enterprise would integrate or to those relying on this as their daily email client as Mail1Click is missing core email client features as described above.